
Lust for Gold
- PASSED
- Year:
- 1949
- 90 min
- 19 Views
You are looking at Superstition Mountain.
A barbaric pile of rock,
40 miles long by 20 wide.
The man is Floyd Buckley.
He's going into this 800 square miles
of sudden and violent death...
because he thinks
it's just another mountain...
and because he's greedy for its treasure.
Yeah, I said treasure. Gold.
$20 million worth of precious yellow metal...
waiting to be found
in America's most elusive mine...
appropriately named "The Lost Dutchman".
It's simple to get to. The mountain, I mean.
from Phoenix, Arizona, and there she is.
She looks easy from the outside.
Inside, it's like Satan's
private art gallery.
Sculptured pagan granites,
unmellowed by time...
hidden in terrifying canyons and gorges.
But if you'd like to pick up $20 million...
and figure, like Buckley there,
that a mountain's just a mountain...
I'll show you where to look.
But before you leave for Arizona...
you ought to know that 21 men have been
murdered grabbing for that dough...
and hundreds more have died in other ways.
You see, this is the true story
of Superstition Mountain.
The biography of a death trap.
My name's Barry Storm.
I was hurled into this story
when I heard that shot.
Up till then, I was just an ordinary guy
with a reasonable curiosity...
about the Lost Dutchman Mine.
A curiosity I wish I'd never been born with.
I hurried towards the sound of the report...
and hoped I'd find a hunter
I found Floyd Buckley, sprawled and dead.
His blood, life, and dreams
spilling out on the unfriendly ground.
When you find a dead man,
you're supposed to call the police.
I'm a good citizen.
I set out to do what you're supposed to do.
Fear and panic
gave me a boost up over that ledge...
and I began to run, not walk,
to the nearest exit.
Speed no longer meant anything to Buckley,
but it did to me.
I didn't want to be framed in the crosshairs
of a telescopic sight...
on a high-powered rifle.
I'd just gone in to look for gold.
I didn't want to find lead
from the business end of a killer's gun.
It took me three days
and 36 miles of tough hiking...
to put the sheriff
from Florence, Arizona into action.
Identification bracelet.
Wallet.
Telegram.
"Lecturing in Los Angeles, September 30th. "
They're going to have to get a new speaker.
That's all the personal effects.
Let's go.
Sit down, son.
You say your name's Barry Storm.
You're from Colorado
and you've been here only 10 days.
You're no prospector, but you were up there
when Buckley got shot.
What were you doing in the mountain?
I know it sounds kind of bad,
but I was following Buckley.
You were what?
Now, wait a minute. I didn't shoot him.
I had a good reason to be up there.
My grandfather was Jacob Walz.
- Who?
- Jacob Walz.
The man who owned
the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine.
The Dutchman, huh?
That goes back to about 1880.
He's supposed to have killed
quite a few men in his time.
That doesn't have anything to do with me.
All I know is, when I was a kid...
her father was supposed to have found.
I always figured
someday I'd come down here.
So you came down here. Go on.
I thought there might still be a buck
laying around that had my name on it.
was the Claims Office in Phoenix.
- How do you spell that again?
- Walz. W-A-L-Z. Jacob Walz.
Nope. Nobody by that name
ever registered a claim here.
This record goes clear back to 1870.
But there must have been.
The Lost Dutchman
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